Table of Contents

Introduction I: Postmodern America: A New Democratic Order in the Second Gilded Age  Van Gosse
Introduction II: Was It the End or Just a Beginning? American Storytelling Traditions and the 1960s  Richard Moser
1. Beyond Declension: Feminist Radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s  Sara M. Evans
2. The Land Belongs to the People: Reframing Urban Protest in Post-Sixties Philadelphia  Andrew Feffer
3. Unpacking the Vietnam Syndrome: The Coup in Chile and the Rise of Popular Anti-Interventionism  Van Gosse
4. The Movement Inside: BBS Films and the Cultural Left in the New Hollywood  Andrew Schroeder
5. In the Name of Austerity: Middle-Class Consumption and the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973-1974  Natasha Zaretsky
6. Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women's Movement and Public Protest  Anne Enke
7. Fabulous Politics: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Movements, 1969-1999  Jeffrey Escoffier
8. A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993  Christopher Capozzola
9. Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999  Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo
10. Out of Labor's Dark Age: Sexual Politics Comes to the Workplace  Kitty Krupat
11. Auto Workers at Lordstown: Workplace Democracy and American Citizenship  Richard Moser
12. Cartoon Politics: The Case of the Purloined Parents  James Livingston
13. At the End of the Century (poem)  Eliot Katz
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Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig, is concerned with the traditional and nontraditional ways in which historical ideas are formed. In its attentiveness to issues of race, class, and gender and to the role of human agency in shaping events, the series is as critical of traditional historical method as content. Emphasizing that history is itself an interpretation of material events, the series demonstrates that the historian's choices of subject, narrative technique, and documentation are politically as well as intellectually constructed.